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“Last time I asked: 'What does mathematics mean to you?', and some people answered: "The manipulation of numbers, the manipulation of structures.' And if I had asked what music means to you, would you have answered: 'The manipulation of notes?”
― The Beauty of Doing Mathematics: Three Public Dialogues
― The Beauty of Doing Mathematics: Three Public Dialogues
“There is no value in anything until it is finished.”
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“I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no ‘brief candle’ to me. It is sort of a splendid torch which I have a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it over to future generations.”
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“Conquering the world on horseback is easy; it is dismounting and governing that is hard.”
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“With Heaven’s aid I have conquered for you a huge empire. But my life was too short to achieve the conquest of the world. That task is left for you.”
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